Ay Dios Mio! Los Watchmen!

Well, some enterprising young man has posted an extended version of the Watchmen trailer that was recently shown at the Spike TV awards. You can see it here. (Sorry, no embedding allowed.)

The guys over at AICN are starting to cautiously admit that it looks like Zach Snyder has nailed "Watchmen" in a visual medium - something that comics fans have been saying is impossible for almost twenty years now. After seeing this trailer, I am slowly getting on board with them about this.

My thoughts on this extended trailer...

A.) I am in love with the Smashing Pumpkins song that they're using for this trailer. Wow. Talk about a seamless blend between music and visuals. The clocklike pace of the song really matches Snyder's propensity for slo-mo action. That trailer is a eye-cotton-candy. I love it.

B.) I got goosebumps from the shot of Dr.Manhattan taking that tank apart. Wow. I love strong visuals.

C.) If the reviews on this are something other than dogshit, I am going to see this opening weekend in the IMAX. Period. End of discussion. I want my giant-sized Dr.Manhattan to be to scale.

D.) I stumbled across a spoiler for the end of the movie online, which has answered a nagging question that I've had about this adaptation.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. AVOID IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO THE MOVIE, UNSOILED!

There's no "alien" at the end of the movie. Instead, Ozzy and Dr.M have been building "free energy" facilities in major cities of the world and Ozzy blows them up, nuking these major cities, but using the energy from them to frame Dr.M. It looks to the world like Dr.M went berserk, which is why he has to leave at the end of the movie and go out into space. And it accomplishes Ozzy's goal of uniting mankind against a common enemy. So, now you know. Me personally? I'm cool with this change. Thematically, it fits the ending of the book, but removes the one logical stepping stone that I thought people would have a hard time with - the creation of an alien, it's teleportation and the death of all of the world's psychics. That's something I don't think any audience would follow, on the big screen. So, this change is cool with me.

I have got to go see this movie.

Cheers,
Mr.B